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Upcoming activities

Presentation by Tobias Dalberg of the paper “Early Selection Practices and the Making of Legitimate Scholars 1947-1977” at the workshop Histories of Scholarly Evaluation in the Sciences and Humanities, 1700-2000, Irish College Leuven, September 27-29, 2026.

Presentation by Hampus Östh Gustafsson of the paper “The Power to Initiate Research: Shifting Logics and Institutional Transformation of the Swedish Humanities in the Context of External Funding, 1959–1977” at the conference Making of the Humanities XII, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torún, October 7–9, 2026.

Past activities

2026

Presentation by Per Wisselgren of the paper “Torgny T. Segerstedt som forskningspolitisk hybridaktör och Statens samhällsvetenskapliga forskningsråd 1947–1977” at Teknik- och vetenskapshistoriska dagar 2026, Gothenburg University, August 19-21, 2026.

Workshop on the History of Research Funding, Uppsala University, June 11–12, 2026.

Presentation of the project at the Swedish Research Council, Stockholm, 24 March, 2026.

Presentation of preliminary papers at the HERO (Higher Education and Research as Objects of Study) seminar, Uppsala University, 28 January, 2026.

2025

Session “The Effects of New Research Policies: Financial Infrastructures of Knowledge and the Shaping of the Swedish Postwar Research Landscape” at the History of Knowledge Conference at Lund University, 8–10 October, 2025.

Presentation by Hampus Östh Gustafsson of the paper “From Culture to Research: External Funding in the Swedish Humanities and the Renegotiated Boundaries of Scientific Authority, 1929–1959” at the 31st Congress of Nordic Historians at University of Iceland in Reykjavík, August 13-15, 2025.

Reference Group Workshop, peer review of project plans and progress, Uppsala University/Online, 16 June, 2025.

Presentation of the project at the higher seminar at Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion at Gothenburg University, 27 May, 2025.

Presentation of the project at the higher seminar at Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University, 25 March, 2025.

Presentation of the project at the higher seminar at Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, 3 March, 2025.

2024

Presentation by Hampus Östh Gustafsson of the paper “En ‘rörlig reserv’ och formeringen av en ny forskare” at the Rettigsymposium at Riksantikvarieämbetet, 11 December, 2024.

Presentation by Tobias Dalberg of the project at the WORMs: Exploratory Workshop on Research Metrics at Uppsala University, 14-15 October, 2024.

Presentation by Per Wisselgren of the project at the Idéhistoria på gång conference at Umeå University, 10-11 October, 2024.